Knowledge Limitation Quotes

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

I searched all areas of knowledge, and not only did I fail to find anything, but I was convinced that all those who had explored as I did had also come up with nothing. Not only had they found nothing, but they had clearly acknowledged the same thing that had brought me to despair: the only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

If evolution is true, you could not know that it’s true because your brain is nothing but chemicals. Think about that.

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

No path leads from a knowledge of that which is to that which should be.